Information (eBook)

A Historical Companion

Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton (Herausgeber)

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2021
904 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20974-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries spanning archivists to algorithms and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies.Written by an international team of experts, the book's inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and concepts-from ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence.Tells the story of information's rise from 1450 through to todayCovers a range of eras and regions, including the medieval Islamic world, late imperial East Asia, early modern and modern Europe, and modern North AmericaIncludes 100 concise articles on wide-ranging topics:Concepts: data, intellectual property, privacyFormats and genres: books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls and rolls, social mediaPeople: archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachersPractices: censorship, forecasting, learning, political reporting, translatingProcesses: digitization, quantification, storage and searchSystems: bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunicationsTechnologies: cameras, computers, lithographyProvides an informative glossary, suggested further reading (a short bibliography accompanies each entry), and a detailed indexWritten by an international team of notable contributors, including Jeremy Adelman, Lorraine Daston, Devin Fitzgerald, John-Paul Ghobrial, Lisa Gitelman, Earle Havens, Randolph C. Head, Niv Horesh, Sarah Igo, Richard R. John, Lauren Kassell, Pamela Long, Erin McGuirl, David McKitterick, Elias Muhanna, Thomas S. Mullaney, Carla Nappi, Craig Robertson, Daniel Rosenberg, Neil Safier, Haun Saussy, Will Slauter, Jacob Soll, Heidi Tworek, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alexandra Walsham, and many more.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 43 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Advertising • Album • algorithm • Alphabetical order • Anatoly Detwyler • Annotation • Appraising • archaeological decipherment • Archive • archives • archivist • Archivists • art of memory • author • Bells • Bibliography • Book • Book History • books • book sales catalogues • Bruce Rusk • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Calculation • cameras • Cards • Career • Cartography • Censorship • Census • Christopher Nigent • coins and medals • commodification • Commodity • commonplace book • commonplacing • Communication • Computation • Computer • Computers • copying • Cross-Reference • Cybernetics • Data • Database • Databases • decrypting • Diagrams • digitization • diplomats and spies • disinformation • Dissemination • Document • documentary authority • Drums • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • East Asia • Editing • Edition (book) • Email • encrypting • Encyclopedia • engraving • Epigraphy • Eric Hayot • error • ethnography • European information state • excerpting • Feedback • files • Forecasting • Forgery • forms • Genre • Globalization • Google Books • Governance • government documents • Handbook • History • Horoscope • Household • Illustration • Index card • indexing • Information • information genres • Information Keywords • Information Management • information networks • Information Policy • information practices • Infrastructure • Inscriptions • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Intellectual Property • Intelligence Testing • inventories • Jack Chen • Journalism • journals • Khipu • Knowledge • landscape and cities • layout and script in letters • learning • Lecture • legal aspects • Letterpress • Letters • libraries • Lists • Literacy • Literary Information in China • Literature • Lithography • Magazines • manuals • Manuscript • Maps • media • media technologies • medical and legal cases • Medieval Islamic World • Memos • Michele Kennerly • misinformation • Modernity • MONEY • Movable Type • narrative • Networks • New Media • newpapers • News • News agency • Newsletter • newsletters • newspaper • Notebooks • Observing • Pamphlet • Parchment • Periodicals • petitions • Philology • Philosopher • photocopiers • photography • Physician • plagiarizing • platforms • Political Reporting • Politics • postal customer • Precedent • Prediction • premodern regimes and practices • printed images • printing • printing press • privacy • professors • programming • proofreaders • Propaganda • Publication • Publicity • Public Opinion • Public sphere • Publishing • Quantification • Quantity • Readers • Reading (process) • recording • records • reference books • Registers • Republic of Letters • Requirement • result • rhetoric • Rolls • Ruler • Scientist • Scribes • Scrolls • Search • secretaries • Sermons • Social Media • Society of Jesus • Storage • surveilling • Surveys • Tax • Teaching • Technology • Technology and society • Telecommunication • Telegraphy • Textbook • The New York Times • theory • Thought • Title page • Translating • Travel • treatise • Understanding • Universal library • Usage • vocabulary • webs • woodblock printing • woodcut • World War II • Writing • Xiao Liu • xylography
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20974-X / 069120974X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20974-6 / 9780691209746